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Washington Post | "I am taking action to affirm and improve the state’s commitment to privacy and equality. To that end, today I have signed an executive order with the goal of achieving that fine balance.” | 2016-04-18 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/18/north-carolina-governors-misleading-claim-about-his-executive-order-and-the-lgbt-law/ | Three Pinocchios | Pat McCrory | 2016-04-12 |
PolitiFact | Says Russ Feingold "voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors, he even tried to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants." | 2016-11-03 | http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/nov/03/ron-johnson/ron-johnson-russ-feingold-social-security-votes-ra/ | Mostly False | Ron Johnson | 2016-10-10 |
PolitiFact | "Democrats are nowhere to be found on DACA." | 2018-03-07 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/07/donald-trump/are-democrats-nowhere-be-found-daca-donald-trump-c/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-03-05 |
FactCheck.org | "412 Michigan Muslims Arrested In Fed's 'LARGEST BUST IN U.S. HISTORY'" | 2018-08-31 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/old-spin-on-health-care-fraud-bust-returns/ | False | Various websites | 2018-08-24 |
PolitiFact | In the U.S. asylum system, "claims of 'fear to return' have skyrocketed, and the percentage of claims that are genuinely meritorious are down." | 2017-10-19 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/19/jeff-sessions/jeff-sessions-claim-about-asylum-system-fraudulent/ | Half True | Jeff Sessions | 2017-10-12 |
Washington Post | “One year ago, we pledged to cut nationwide opioid prescriptions by one-third. Already during my time in office, we have reduced the total amount of opioid prescribed by 34 percent. That’s a pretty amazing number.” | 2019-05-02 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/02/trumps-claim-amazing-success-cutting-opioid-prescriptions/ | Three Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2019-04-24 |
Washington Post | "Concerned Veterans for America is a political advocacy group funded by the Koch Brothers ... to push dangerous policies that would privatize the VA." | 2016-12-07 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/07/democrats-misleading-claim-that-concerned-veterans-for-america-wants-to-privatize-the-va/ | Three Pinocchios | Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) | 2016-12-05 |
PolitiFact | Members of Congress "receive full pay retirement after serving one term." | 2016-07-11 | https://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2011/may/29/chain-email/email-message-says-members-congress-get-full-pensi/ | Pants on Fire | Chain email | 2011-05-29 |
PolitiFact | "Fifty percent of our (West Virginia) budget was for lower education." | 2018-12-07 | https://www.politifact.com/west-virginia/statements/2018/dec/06/roman-prezioso/does-west-virginia-spend-half-its-budget-k-12-educ/ | Mostly True | Roman Prezioso | 2018-11-29 |
PolitiFact | "March 2019 and on-going food benefits WILL NOT be available until further notice. Clients are encouraged to use their food benefits as soon as possible in case SNAP benefits are unavailable in March." | 2019-01-15 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jan/15/delaware-health-and-social-services/are-food-stamps-going-be-unavailable-march/ | Half True | Delaware Health and Social Services | 2019-01-14 |
FactCheck.org | "Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before." | 2019-04-02 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/trump-misleads-on-aid-to-puerto-rico/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-04-02 |
PolitiFact | "There are more than twice as many (crisis pregnancy centers) as there are legitimate abortion providers in the United States." | 2016-05-17 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/may/17/vicki-saporta/tallies-are-too-sketchy-say-anti-abortion-centers-/ | Half True | Vicki Saporta | 2016-05-09 |
PolitiFact | "For every dollar we spend on actual peace creation, we spend over $1,000 on ways to prepare for war." | 2019-04-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/15/marianne-williamson/us-spends-1000-times-more-war-peace-presidential-c/ | Half True | Marianne Williamson | 2019-04-04 |
PolitiFact | "John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011" | 2018-01-09 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jan/09/fact-checking-read-fire-and-fury-michael-wolff/ | Boehner left in 2015 | 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' by Michael Wolff | 2018-01-05 |
PolitiFact | Say video "shows massive alligator strolling across Florida golf course." | 2016-06-01 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/jun/01/blog-posting/massive-alligator-spotted-roaming-florida-golf-cou/ | True | Bloggers | 2016-06-01 |
PolitiFact | "An elderly British politician has been savagely beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of anti-Trump protestors because he ‘welcomed’ the U.S. president to the United Kingdom." | 2018-07-17 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/17/blog-posting/no-evidence-political-motives-ambassador-attack/ | Mostly False | Bloggers | 2018-07-13 |
PolitiFact | Says "Paul Ryan shut off the C-SPAN cameras when the Democrats started their sit-in." | 2016-06-27 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/27/stephen-colbert/stephen-colbert-wrong-paul-ryan-killed-house-camer/ | Mostly False | Stephen Colbert | 2016-06-23 |
PolitiFact | "Al-Qaida operatives, have said, 'Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.'" | 2016-06-23 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/23/cory-booker/sen-cory-booker-says-al-qaida-has-urged-followers-/ | Mostly True | Cory Booker | 2016-06-16 |
PolitiFact | "Denzel Washington: With Trump we avoided war with Russia and Orwellian Police State" | 2018-04-24 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/apr/24/blog-posting/no-denzel-washington-didnt-praise-trump-averting-w/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2018-02-24 |
FactCheck.org | "NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate" | 2019-04-29 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/ban-on-hot-dogs-in-nyc-not-quite/ | Distorts the Facts | KFYI.iHeart.com | 2019-04-23 |
PolitiFact | Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators." | 2016-11-02 | https://www.politifact.com/colorado/statements/2016/nov/01/national-republican-congressional-committee/nrcc-says-morgan-carroll-voted-against-tracking-ch/ | Mostly False | National Republican Congressional Committee | 2016-10-25 |
PolitiFact | "A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year." | 2016-07-21 | https://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2016/jul/20/hugh-hewitt/hugh-hewitt-million-ohio-democrats-changed-parties/ | Mostly False | Hugh Hewitt | 2016-07-20 |
FactCheck.org | "Seniors on Social Security have to pay for Medicare and a Supplemental Ins. And the illegals get it all for free." | 2019-02-21 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/meme-spreads-misinformation-on-medicare/ | False | Viral meme | 2019-01-26 |
PolitiFact | Says Donald Trump supports "an agenda out there" to privatize the Veterans Affairs health care system. | 2016-09-08 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/07/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-donald-trump-supports-privati/ | Mostly False | Hillary Clinton | 2016-09-07 |
PolitiFact | "Canada Pays Off Entire Federal Debt One Day After Marijuana Legalization" | 2018-10-24 | https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2018/oct/24/blog-posting/did-canada-pay-its-debt-day-after-legalizing-marij/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2018-10-18 |
PolitiFact | "Background checks have been unequivocally shown to reduce gun violence." | 2017-10-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/11/seth-moulton/have-background-checks-been-unequivocally-shown-re/ | Half True | Seth Moulton | 2017-10-08 |
PolitiFact | Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes. | 2016-09-02 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/sep/02/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-says-illegal-immigrants-account-75-pe/ | True | Sean Hannity | 2016-08-23 |
PolitiFact | Says she is "the only candidate for Senate who refuses to cut Medicare and Social Security or raise the retirement age." | 2018-08-14 | https://www.politifact.com/arizona/statements/2018/aug/14/kyrsten-sinema/fact-checking-kyrsten-sinemas-claim-about-medicare/ | Half True | Kyrsten Sinema | 2018-06-11 |
PolitiFact | Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents." | 2017-02-01 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2017/feb/01/jeanne-shaheen/yes-trumps-abortion-policy-puts-global-health-mone/ | Mostly True | Jeanne Shaheen | 2017-01-24 |
FactCheck.org | A meme quotes Rep. Nancy Pelosi as saying: "I am disgusted with ‘President’ Trump allowing people to keep more of the money they earn." | 2018-10-03 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/fake-pelosi-tweet-pops-up-again/ | False | Viral image | 2018-10-02 |
PolitiFact | President Barack Obama attended “an Islamic madrassa.” | 2016-07-05 | http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/jul/05/pat-robertson/pat-robertson-misleadingly-says-obama-was-schooled/ | Mostly False | Pat Robertson | 2016-06-27 |
PolitiFact | Says $15-an-hour minimum wage proposal in Cleveland is “the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country.” | 2016-05-09 | https://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2016/may/09/joe-roman/15-minimum-wage-proposal-cleveland-most-aggressive/ | True | Joe Roman | 2016-04-25 |
PolitiFact | "Jack Berry voted for a plan to cut $23.8 million from our schools." | 2016-10-31 | https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/oct/31/levar-stoney/levar-stoney-weakly-claims-jack-berry-voted-cut-23/ | Mostly False | Levar Stoney | 2016-10-17 |
PolitiFact | "Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)." | 2018-04-13 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/apr/13/jerry-brown/jerry-brown-says-theres-no-massive-wave-migrants-p/ | True | Jerry Brown | 2018-04-11 |
PolitiFact | "Today, 27 million people .. are enslaved." | 2017-02-17 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2017/feb/17/bob-corker/are-27-million-people-trapped-modern-slavery/ | Mostly True | Bob Corker | 2017-02-15 |
PolitiFact | "The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border." | 2018-06-07 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2018/jun/07/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-overplays-link-between-opioid-crisis-/ | Half True | Ron DeSantis | 2018-06-02 |
PolitiFact | Says "11 straight years of no major hurricanes striking land" in the United States "bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument." | 2016-10-07 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/07/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-wrong-lack-hurricanes-diminishes-cli/ | Pants on Fire | Rush Limbaugh | 2016-10-05 |
PolitiFact | "Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens." | 2016-07-22 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/22/donald-trump/trump-nearly-180000-illegal-immigrants-have-crimin/ | Mostly True | Donald Trump | 2016-07-22 |
PolitiFact | Florida’s coastal and stormwater infrastructure are "two of the most critical areas during a storm, and received D-plus and D ratings, respectively, by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016." | 2017-09-25 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/sep/25/gwen-graham/taking-closer-look-gwen-grahams-claim-about-storm-/ | True | Gwen Graham | 2017-09-18 |
Washington Post | “The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal." | 2018-06-08 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/08/trumps-claim-that-the-obama-administrations-action-on-iran-was-totally-illegal/ | Four Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2018-06-07 |
PolitiFact | Under the Iran nuclear deal, "we give them $150 billion, we get nothing." | 2017-04-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/17/donald-trump/no-donald-trump-we-are-not-giving-iran-150-billion/ | False | Donald Trump | 2016-03-15 |
PolitiFact | "The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been." | 2016-05-25 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/may/25/scott-walker/scott-walker-who-cut-funds-wisconsin-university-sy/ | Mostly True | Scott Walker | 2016-05-16 |
FactCheck.org | "Anybody in favor of the [diversity visa] lottery, where you pick it out and you say, 'Good, we have a new United States citizen'?" | 2018-02-15 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/02/trump-puts-new-twist-visa-misinformation/ | Distorts the Facts | Donald Trump | 2018-02-13 |
PolitiFact | "By law, Democrats gave the superintendent of public instruction, back in 2009, the ability to take over failing schools … The current superintendent has failed to do that." | 2018-07-09 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/jul/05/scott-walker/gov-scott-walker-says-state-schools-chief-tony-eve/ | False | Scott Walker | 2018-05-13 |
PolitiFact | "There aren’t enough ballots in question to change the outcome" of the Harris vs. McCready race in NC Congressional District 9. | 2018-12-04 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/dec/04/north-carolina-republican-party/nc-gop-misleads-about-nc-election-fraud-investigat/ | Mostly False | North Carolina Republican Party | 2018-12-02 |
PolitiFact | Many March for Our Lives speakers called for "the murder of those who would not turn over their guns to the government." | 2018-03-29 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/mar/29/beverly-boswell/nc-republican-march-our-lives-speakers-said-they-w/ | Pants on Fire | Beverly Boswell | 2018-03-27 |
PolitiFact | "I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia." | 2018-10-18 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/18/donald-trump/donald-trumps-claim-no-financial-interests-saudi-a/ | Half True | Donald Trump | 2018-10-16 |
FactCheck.org | Claimed allegations of “sex actions” made against President Donald Trump in a dossier on alleged ties between Trump and Russia are “absolutely true.” | 2017-03-10 | https://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/maxine-waters-on-alleged-sex-actions/ | Unsupported | Maxine Waters | 2017-03-09 |
Washington Post | "What he [Brett Kavanaugh] told us under oath is not accurate." | 2018-08-15 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/15/fact-checking-bipartisan-spinfest-brett-kavanaughs-time-white-house/ | Needs context | Richard J. Durbin | 2018-07-18 |
PolitiFact | "In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased." | 2017-09-06 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2017/sep/06/donald-trump/milwaukee-op-ed-donald-trump-overstates-economic-i/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2017-09-03 |
PolitiFact | What's in Trump's travel ban, take 2? | 2017-10-01 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/06/trumps-travel-ban-executive-order-take-2/ | What the order says | Donald Trump | 2017-03-06 |
PolitiFact | "Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents." | 2016-05-13 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/may/13/steve-adler/steve-adler-correctly-says-austin-no-1-texas-start/ | True | Steve Adler | 2015-04-25 |
PolitiFact | "First NFL team declares bankruptcy over kneeling thugs." | 2018-07-20 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/feb/07/blog-posting/no-jaguars-nfl-team-didnt-declare-bankruptcy-after/ | Pants on Fire | Bloggers | 2018-02-02 |
PolitiFact | The Paris Agreement would result in "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production." | 2017-06-01 | http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jun/01/fact-checking-donald-trumps-statement-withdrawing-/ | Based on flawed study | Donald Trump | 2017-06-01 |
PolitiFact | Says Donald Trump said he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling" during the campaign. | 2016-11-22 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/nov/22/bill-nelson/bill-nelson-says-donald-trump-intends-expand-oil-d/ | Mostly True | Bill Nelson | 2016-11-16 |
PolitiFact | Viral internet photo shows a young Christine Ford | 2018-10-04 | https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2018/oct/04/lanny-lancaster/gop-county-leader-shares-fake-photo-ford-blasey/ | Pants on Fire | Viral internet photo shows a young Christine Ford | 2018-10-01 |
PolitiFact | The Senate seat won in a special election by a Democrat had been "held for more than thirty years by Republicans." | 2018-01-03 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/03/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-about-length-time-gop-held-alab/ | False | Donald Trump | 2017-01-03 |
PolitiFact | "A violent felon can buy (a gun) over the Internet with no background check, no questions asked." | 2017-04-11 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/05/barack-obama/obama-violent-felons-can-buy-guns-online-without-b/ | Mostly True | Barack Obama | 2016-01-05 |
PolitiFact | Kurt Russell said that celebrities shouldn't "get political" when it comes to Donald Trump. | 2018-06-27 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/27/twentyeightmay/story-takes-actor-kurt-russells-comments-about-pol/ | Mostly False | Twentyeightmay | 2018-06-23 |
PolitiFact | Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally. | 2016-11-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/nov/15/donald-trump/trump-misleads-number-criminal-immigrants-illegall/ | Half True | Donald Trump | 2016-11-13 |
PolitiFact | "There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know." | 2017-08-16 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/aug/16/roy-moore/alabamas-roy-moore-says-whole-communities-midwest-/ | Pants on Fire | Roy Moore | 2017-08-14 |
Washington Post | “Now he’s lying about Social Security and Medicare. O’Connor supports a Pelosi-backed plan that cuts Medicare spending by $800 billion.” | 2018-08-04 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/04/mediscare-attack-ad-in-ohio-special-election-conjures-up-nonexistent-plan-to-cut-spending/ | Four Pinocchios | Congressional Leadership Fund | 2018-08-02 |
PolitiFact | "In 2018, we endured a school shooting nearly once a week." | 2019-02-11 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2019/feb/11/alcee-hastings/was-there-one-school-shooting-week-2018-florida-la/ | Half True | Alcee Hastings | 2019-02-05 |
FactCheck.org | Meme depicts Holocaust survivor George Soros as Nazi guard. | 2018-10-31 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/viral-meme-misidentifies-nazi-guard-as-soros/ | False | Viral image | 2018-10-18 |
PolitiFact | "Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail" by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. | 2016-07-07 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/07/donald-trump/donald-trump-isnt-winging-it-complaint-about-air-f/ | Mostly True | Donald Trump | 2016-07-05 |
PolitiFact | "Even Richard Nixon released his tax returns to the public when he was running for president ..." | 2016-08-22 | https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/aug/22/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-wrongly-says-richard-nixon-released-tax-/ | Mostly False | Tim Kaine | 2016-08-13 |
Washington Post | "Now that we have this deficit problem we caused with this tax bill, they turn around and they say they have got to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security." | 2018-10-23 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/23/are-republicans-seeking-get-rid-medicare-medicaid-social-security/ | Four Pinocchios | Sheldon Whitehouse | 2018-10-16 |
PolitiFact | Says the Obama administration purged "training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood." | 2017-12-15 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/15/scott-perry/gop-lawmaker-claims-fbi-purged-training-documents-/ | Half True | Scott Perry | 2017-11-30 |
PolitiFact | "According to SCUBA divers, Summersville Lake is the clearest freshwater lake east of the Mississippi River." | 2018-09-13 | https://www.politifact.com/west-virginia/statements/2018/sep/13/jim-justice/west-virginias-summerville-lake-clearest-east/ | Mostly False | Jim Justice | 2018-08-17 |
PolitiFact | "There are 30,000 people that have been killed with seat belts." | 2016-05-24 | https://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2011/jul/13/joseph-trillo/ri-rep-trillo-says-30000-people-have-died-because-/ | Pants on Fire | Joseph Trillo | 2011-06-29 |
PolitiFact | "Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants." | 2017-03-08 | https://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2017/mar/08/raj-shah/yes-most-us-foreign-aid-flows-through-us-organizat/ | True | Raj Shah | 2017-02-24 |
PolitiFact | The United States "spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D." | 2018-12-06 | https://www.politifact.com/west-virginia/statements/2018/dec/06/david-mckinley/does-us-spend-more-potato-chips-energy-research/ | True | David McKinley | 2018-11-15 |
PolitiFact | "I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty.' Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold! Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize? Doubt it!" | 2019-06-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jun/02/context-donald-trumps-nasty-comment-about-meghan-m/ | He said the word | Donald Trump | 2019-06-02 |
PolitiFact | "Instead of two for one, we have cut 22 burdensome regulations for everyone new rule." | 2018-02-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/feb/02/donald-trump/trump-hasnt-cut-22-regulations-every-new-one/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2018-01-26 |
PolitiFact | Says Sen. Mitch McConnell's delay in seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones "is a flagrant violation of Senate policy, which requires Jones assume office the instant one of them wins the election." | 2017-12-18 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/dec/18/verified-politics/seating-doug-jones-does-delay-break-senate-rules/ | False | Verified Politics | 2017-12-13 |
PolitiFact | Says he and his running mate "are the only candidates that do believe in free trade." | 2016-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/oct/25/gary-johnson/testing-gary-johnson-claim-he-only-candidate-favor/ | Half True | Gary Johnson | 2016-09-04 |
FactCheck.org | A Facebook post attributes several quotes about President Donald Trump to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. | 2019-04-15 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/what-kissinger-has-said-about-trump/ | Some Right, Some Wrong | Facebook post | 2019-04-10 |
FactCheck.org | "Reminder: This building in Oklahoma City was blown up and destroyed just 4 days before Hillary Clinton was to be indicted in the Whitewater scandal. All documents lost!" | 2019-03-06 | https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/baseless-oklahoma-city-bombing-conspiracy-theory/ | False | Viral meme | 2019-02-13 |
PolitiFact | "The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level." | 2018-01-29 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/29/donald-trump/trump-gets-polar-ice-trend-backwards/ | Pants on Fire | Donald Trump | 2018-01-26 |
PolitiFact | David Jolly "has used money and power to try to … drill off our beaches." | 2016-06-30 | https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2016/jun/30/charlie-crist/us-rep-david-jolly-worked-drill-our-beaches-crist-/ | Mostly False | Charlie Crist | 2016-06-17 |
PolitiFact | "I haven't switched my position" on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. | 2016-08-07 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/07/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-says-he-hasnt-changed-his-position-trans/ | Half True | Tim Kaine | 2016-08-07 |
PolitiFact | Says challenger Sean Casten supports "doubling premiums" and "cutting current health care plans." | 2018-08-16 | https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2018/aug/12/peter-roskam/roskam-makes-absurd-claims-about-democratic-challe/ | Pants on Fire | Peter Roskam | 2018-07-01 |
Washington Post | “The law’s totally on my side, meaning, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.” | 2016-11-23 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/23/trumps-claim-that-the-president-cant-have-a-conflict-of-interest/ | Not Quite Right | Donald Trump | 2016-11-22 |
FactCheck.org | "I'm not denying climate change. But it could very well go back." | 2018-10-18 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/trump-wrong-on-climate-change-again/ | Distorts the Facts | Donald Trump | 2018-10-14 |
PolitiFact | "A number of Democrats running for governor want to cut the prison population by 50%" and "that would require the release of thousands of violent felons." | 2018-08-09 | https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/aug/09/scott-walker/cutting-wisconsin-prison-population-50-wouldnt-req/ | Half True | Scott Walker | 2018-08-07 |
Washington Post | “Senator Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has raised $12 million from more than 218,000 individual contributions in the first quarter of 2019. 98 percent of Harris’s contributions were under $100 ...” | 2019-04-17 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/17/trump-harris-campaigns-sketchy-boasts-about-small-dollar-contributions/ | Two Pinocchios | Kamala Harris for the People | 2019-04-01 |
FactCheck.org | Rep. Beto O’Rourke “said crossing the border illegally should not be a crime.” | 2018-09-25 | https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/misleading-ad-targets-orourke-for-border-comments/ | Misleading | Ted Cruz | 2018-09-19 |
PolitiFact | "U.S. comedian Kevin Hart in critical condition after gory car crash." | 2017-09-19 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/sep/19/nydailynews-tvcom/kevin-harts-confession-real-car-crash-report-fake-/ | Pants on Fire | NYDailyNews-TV.com | 2017-09-18 |
PolitiFact | "Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls." | 2017-07-31 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/31/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-business-spirit-highest-its-ever/ | Mostly False | Donald Trump | 2017-07-31 |
PolitiFact | "All the things Patrick (Morrisey) is saying — (that I supported) Hillary Clinton, cap and trade, Planned Parenthood — PolitiFact went through each and every allegation and said, ‘False, False, False, False.’ " | 2018-05-02 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/02/evan-jenkins/did-evan-jenkins-correctly-cite-past-politifact-ru/ | Half True | Evan Jenkins | 2018-05-01 |
PolitiFact | Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world." | 2016-07-08 | https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/jul/08/rodney-ellis/sen-rodney-ellis-says-harris-county-has-some-highe/ | Mostly True | Rodney Ellis | 2016-05-19 |
Washington Post | "So, we've already started the wall. We got $1.6 billion. The wall has been started. San Diego and lots of different places.” | 2018-06-22 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/22/video-one-rally-one-hour-almost-30-trumpian-claims/ | False | Donald Trump | 2018-06-20 |
Washington Post | Judge Neil Gorsuch "has cavalierly referred to contraceptive use ... as ‘the wrongdoing of others.'” | 2017-10-11 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/31/tim-kaines-claim-about-whether-judge-neil-gorsuch-views-contraception-as-a-wrongdoing-of-others/ | Needs context | Tim Kaine | 2017-03-29 |
PolitiFact | Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation." | 2016-06-18 | https://www.politifact.com/nbc/statements/2016/jun/18/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-theres-no-real-assimilation-us-/ | False | Donald Trump | 2016-06-15 |
PolitiFact | Farmers "are now dumping milk into the ditches" because of a trade dispute with Canada | 2017-05-18 | https://bit.ly/2riykMq | False | Chris Collins | 2017-04-28 |
PolitiFact | Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent." | 2016-09-04 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/04/mike-pence/mike-pence-cites-clinton-support-more-syrian-refug/ | True | Mike Pence | 2016-09-04 |
Washington Post | "You’re an enemy of our country. You’re a general with war on your mind. You’re a dictator who we hate and who’s against us. And that dictator and his wife have a baby on American soil. Congratulations. Your son or daughter is now an American citizen." | 2018-11-12 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/12/can-dictators-enemy-generals-get-birthright-citizenship-their-kids/ | Three Pinocchios | Donald Trump | 2018-11-01 |
PolitiFact | Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us." | 2019-05-14 | https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/14/donald-trump/does-china-mostly-pay-us-tariffs-rather-us-consume/ | False | Donald Trump | 2019-05-09 |
PolitiFact | There are "paid protesters" involved in the Stephon Clark demonstrations. | 2018-04-11 | https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/apr/10/scott-jones/protesters-hire-sacramento-sheriff-provides-no-evi/ | False | Scott Jones | 2018-04-02 |
PolitiFact | Says explosive devices mailed to prominent Democrats and Trump critics confirm the "deep state (is) launching false flag against (mainstream media)/Dems to blame Trump & pro-America forces." | 2018-10-25 | https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/oct/25/alex-jones/no-evidence-deep-state-behind-explosive-packages/ | False | Alex Jones | 2018-10-24 |